here is mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that we americans call a dollar. i'm sorry i'm just a guy who cares an awful lot about my country you sir are a fool you know what that is my terror cells. don't want to listen to feature is on the on the liberal and the current. can secure the support of the.

close up guys i'm abby martin so it just came out last week the media coverage of the u.n. general assembly was a teensy bit skewed i mean break it down for you netanyahu speech was welcomed as a full out media blitz every network made sure to cover the the man between them everything he had to say and what kind of coverage documentaries are get well he pretty much got as the laugh in the face because before he even spoke the new york post published this that the piece of. his speech was even cut off by c.n.n. interestingly right before he said that countries and religion should have no problems with each other sounds a little familiar i want to separate trip to new york the video also failed to report that i cannot actually met with jewish religious leaders to exchange well wishes for all religions people and cultures so is it a coincidence that they left us out partly because you see what the mainstream media was trying to do is isolate his message before even hearing it what they

wanted to do was a fiery anti-semitic speech from a nutty nuclear bomb clad leader and his message of peace didn't fit in with their preordained narrative well they catered it to fit their preconceived notion. when they should have been challenging them and that's why i'm breaking the set i . know we're coming up on the first round of debate on wednesday but by the way corporate media has been acting you'd think the polls are already closing i mean seriously apparently obama has already won. the numbers you battleground states according to almost all of the reputable national polls out there show that obama is ahead in most of these key battleground states and the national polls this week giving president obama a slight lead over governor romney according to the latest fox news poll forty

eight percent of likely voters likely voters say that they would vote for the president over governor romney what's interesting here savannah though is it means he now only needs a couple of states a couple of the big states big three that i talk about all the time i'll sort of virginia just a couple of ways and he gets over the finish line i think assuming debate. or even a draw i think the president will win just a few states left for obama to cross that finish line a seriously it's october first so are these polls the biggest news story right now you know what i think is more interesting than a pre-determined election outcome the fact that secrecy about surveillance has increased ten fold under obama than under bush got to the chase here since two thousand and nine electoral votes are bales of americans specifically penn registers and trap and trace devices on phones went from twenty four thousand to nearly thirty eight thousand cases let me make this more visual for you before you

request by the a.c.l.u. revealed that more people were subject to some form of surveillance in the past two years and the entire previous decade over the past couple of years there's also been a rise in tracking and surveillance of e-mail network communications and the type of all. online surveillance that was rarely used in the past but we've learned from the d.o.j. that it's actually increased by a whopping three hundred and sixty one percent between the last two years but they're obviously not the kind of numbers that make the news because there's so much more important things demanding our attention can car dash ins assets well obama could be nearing the end of his presidency with as much criticism as he has given bush for political secrecy the obama white house hasn't been any different in fact it's been worse kind of contradictory to see what he had to say in the first few weeks as president said quote the freedom to ration act which encourages accountability through transparency is the most prominent expression of a profound national commitment to ensuring an open government all agencies should

use modern technology to inform citizens about what is known and done by their government disclosure should be timely yep that was a goal that the obama administration set for itself but when it came down to disclosing reports related to the growing number of americans being surveilled the d.o.j. as time and time again failed to submit these mandatory reports to congress so a lawsuit was actually filed demanding their release and after they were finally obtained nothing was ever done with the information it was even made public for the fight is a law which gave attorney general the authority to order mass acquisition of electronic data from suspected terrorists without a warrant well we never really got an answer on how many americans have been subject to this type of surveillance and even though we have the reports we still don't know how the government is using these surveillance tools the information simply isn't public and you want to know why because the government says it would

be a violation of your privacy to tell you that they're spying on you and that makes perfect sense right you see what obama seems to have. forgotten is that transparency is actually crucial for an informed citizenry because without the ability to make informed decisions a true democracy cannot function. with the. earlier this year the southern poverty law center reported a staggering number that you probably have never heard about reported that there had been a sixty nine percent increase in the number of hate groups since the year two thousand many of which are geared toward white supremacy you know it's interesting we're constantly told that in order to maintain the thing here any of this country in order to protect ourselves from terrorists abroad we have to keep the troops in afghanistan or use drone warfare but is white supremacy ism perhaps one of the

biggest threats to our national security and if so what are we doing about it to talk more about this and more i'm joined by mark potok senior fellow at the southern poverty law center and editor in chief of the journal intelligence report mark thank you so much for joining us today so my pleasure so you know in the last three years particularly these groups have really as equated why do you think that this upsurge of what is attributed to this upsurge. well it's very clearly been associated really with the rise to power as barack obama the country's first black president of course and let that rise to power really represents which is an ongoing racial demographic change in this country the census bureau has predicted that whites will lose their majority about the year twenty fifty so faced with a black president then that reality some in this country are reacting with real

fear or a combination of fear resentment hatred and sometimes just white hot anger and i should mention it's not only will be classified as take groups that are growing growing but in fact much more explosives really so-called patriot groups the groups we used to think of as malicious back in the one nine hundred ninety s. which rose from a mere hundred forty nine in two thousand and eight before obama appeared on the scene and as of last year it breached twelve hundred seventy four groups that is a seven hundred fifty five percent increase in just three years well let's talk about these. patriot groups i do have some questions about it i mean we are change with keepers i mean i know a lot of people in these groups and what what constitutes someone as to put on your radar putting them on as you know why is patriotism bad i mean what are these people doing that constitutes you guys to be watching them well it's not remotely suggestion that patriotism quote unquote is bad that is simply what these groups as

a general matter a call themselves a good example is oath keepers the group you just mentioned oath keepers does portray itself as kind of a mainstream group which acts asks its members law enforcement officials retired and present military to retake the oath of office the oath to defend the constitution against foreign enemies and domestic ottoman is foreign foreign and domestic that's totally reasonable and certainly no one here has any objection to that whatsoever what oath keepers is really about though is the core militia ideology the conspiracy theory that the government is engaged in a secret plot to place this country entre martial law ferry likely with the help of foreign troops to strip americans guns away from them in their entirety to throw those who resist into concentration camps that are either now built or being built

by fema the federal emergency management agency and ultimately to force the united states into a so-called new world mark i mean a lot of people do it here to that not just the so-called patriot groups but i mean even top level government officials have said that there is the continuity of government in place also the n.b.a. i mean when you look at things like this can you really blame people for maybe thinking that is in the works or being paranoid about those things well yes i can blame people because it's simply false and that if one pays any attention to the real world one would know those things are false the national defense authorization act. to which you refer include some kind of planning for a possible state of emergency in the future it is not repeat not a blueprint for a new world takeover new world order takeover of the united states or nor does it reflect a secret plans to build concentration camps into which we planned ok well let's talk really quickly about was incredibly sure i think

a lot of people like in that we are changing women a lot of those people i've met most of them are just concerned with kind of the police state no one can really deny that this country has a very militarized police force and they are concerned about kind of the government overstepping of civil liberties i mean that's undeniable as well where change thrives itself on nonviolent resistance i i don't know anyone that's affiliated with that organization that could possibly be deemed as what you're characterizing do you think it's a danger in a relatively nice anonymous a violent group that's your comment not mine we've never made that suggestion here but marc when you're not imposing these groups when you're juxtaposing these groups i'm with you characterize them as hate groups right i understand that say that we're calling them but we aren't but when you characterize them as groups that one should be watching out for and kind of put them under this blanket next to hate groups i mean another list of course but i mean what do you think is doesn't a damage. do i think it does any damage and yet it's

a part of an effort to inform the public you may not recall it but we had a very very lent a so-called once again patriot movement a militia movement back in the one nine hundred ninety s. and it produced in an enormous level of criminal actions and i don't mean to suggest nor have i ever suggested that all the groups or all members of these groups are criminals are interested in any criminality at all what i would suggest is that they are essentially underwritten by a series of conspiracy theories which are not true which. if the effect of crossing great fear among people who need not fear there is some truth to the idea the police have been militarized in a way that they were not way back in the one nine hundred eighty certainly when you look at swat teams today they look a whole lot more military then they did twenty or thirty years ago those concerns about that concerns about civil liberties and so on are perfectly valid and i

don't suggest any criticism of those people who have those concerns at all sure i think you know he's concerned your government and ideology which posits the government involved in all kinds of elaborate conspiracy theories which end with millions of americans you can see in concentration camps i think it's time for i and i think that might be a leap marred by i'll give you that but i also wanted to say you know a lot of people say that the government is fair mongar in this country and to being scared of muslim terrorists but i wanted to actually segues and i want to tell that to the sikhs in the sikh temple that's what i really wanted to blast my i actually did want to ask you about the sikh temple shooting michael page and it was a faction of one of the most violent racist gangs in the country were you guys following this gang before the attack and if so i mean with so many groups that exist in the escalation of all these white supremacist groups how do we monitor them and prevent attacks like this from happening well the short answer is yes

we're tracking michael wade page wade michael page pardon me for twelve years we've been following him since about two thousand when he began to play in white power rock and roll bands around the country bands with names like and apathy blue eyed. definite takes that kind of thing he wasn't a member really of the gang he was a member of the name made sure skinhead racist skinhead organization called hammer skin nation as a part of the regional organization northern hammer skins you know yes we are a phone. and jim as we follow thousands and thousands of other people involved in the heart for interests of this movement but i don't criticize force meant for not somehow preventing this attack there really was nothing to suggest that they start murdering people and this reality is that there are very large numbers of people in this country who have similar ideology simply leave systems to that of michael wait

wait michael page pardon me it's so sad to say although some of us knew a fair amount about page there really was nothing to be done that is apparent to me in any case that could have saved those people. thank you so much for coming on i do disagree with the characters in. the more peaceful groups just for having questions about the governor what you call the website advocate extreme anti-government doctrines or conspiracy theorizing that is groundless but on the other hand you know definitely the groups that michael wade page were involved in something i look out for thank you so much for coming on and breaking it down mark potok. if you like what you see so far go to our youtube page at youtube dot com breaking the thing and from scribe like our facebook page facebook. breaking the set follow me on twitter at abby martin and happy birthday to occupy d.c. should return tomorrow to see where the movement that and it first here and we'll

take a closer look at that. mr

. there's already been six whistleblowers charged into the espionage act since obama first took office and become clear that this administration is engaging in a full on war against the truth yesterday had the opportunity to attend truth on trial form of supporters for bradley manning featuring talks from whistleblowers thomas drake justin radek and even manning's colleague david house and hear me talk

about this event and break it all down r t where producer andrew blake is going on man you know a little tired from yesterday still is a really intense day it was really intense was also awesome to hear from people who the media doesn't really report on at all if the media if the government keeps up this whole trend you're never going to hear these people because they are kind of telling us that no there really is a war of whistleblowers and we're an example and i think one of most outrageous things was that the espionage act was designed for spies during world war one hundred seventeen r.k. piece of legislation and to actually charge people with this bizarre law that doesn't really apply to whistleblowers and truth tellers is that was really interesting that's one thing that you kept hearing over and over again last night where there was just an aura thomas trying to blew the whistle and an essay or david house was that these people weren't committing like necessarily crimes per se they were being persecuted for telling the truth and that was a crime and even though it was actually saying you know when bradley manning when

he joined the army he was twenty one maybe. eventually became a private first class he joined the army to defend the constitution and the exactly what he was trying to do. that and it's now his it's eight hundred sixty days today that he's been in prison for was looking to accused of telling the truth and david house actually said you know truth is a very scarce resource nowadays and i think everyone that was at yesterday's event could attest to that because here were people who had been prosecuted in persecuted for trying to just take information and share it with the rest here and the legal maximum to hold someone without charges is one hundred twenty days and i think it's really important to realize. how long bradley manning's really been and in his cell with no charges and i really also like when david house said about it's up to us we need to show the government that if someone is sitting there without due process and as someone a whistleblower and a truth teller we need to show the government that we want to demand due process for these people we can't just sit back and let this happen to people and it's not

just like he's sitting around in like a low security prison playing x. box you know bradley has. by the time his trial finishes post his trial to be february by the time it wraps up it'll be around a thousand days if it goes as planned since he was first put into solitary stripped of all those clothes and made you know were like cardboard sleep on like metal this is it's torture this un called it was sure yeah it is torture and you know it's nothing is changing you know right now there's another case it's nowhere near as severe but jeremy hammond who was involved in the group anonymous offshoot he's been in prison for like two hundred thirty days now and hasn't gone to trial yet he's been held in new york city for his role in the stratford leak last year and he's you know things are a little different he's being held in new york city. one time. yeah it's not quantico it's not kuantan but it's people are getting in trouble for

trying to use nonviolent crimes i really wanted to mention one thing that just said who he was the question of the attorney for drake she represented dragons she blew the whistle on violations of department of justice she was also i mean she was saying one thing i had no idea about was that since we can because now declared an enemy of the state from the government any media publication technically that publishes the cables that wiki leaks has could also be charge of the espionage act so it's just a whole slew of like it's a never ending and if they wanted to go after it they could use these technicalities to really you know we know that they already. think that chris hedges actually brought up yesterday's event was that he believes that the national defense authorization act of fiscal year two thousand and twelve. those indefinite detention provisions that are in there specifically ten twenty one b. you know the statute that actually says we can hold u.s. citizens without trial forever and ever and i'm never going. to find one he was saying that he believes that the government is already using those provisions and they are indefinitely detaining u.s. citizens perhaps even on american soil for crimes that. they are going to be

charged as not being charged but now we know all the people at guantanamo been sitting there and wasting away we know bradley's been wasting away for eight hundred sixty two days now and chris i just as well i think i don't under the n.d.a. people are already. using it to imprison others and it's a fairly good good chance that that's actually the very very unfortunate truth we know that there is this war and whistleblowers we know that the government is continuing to fight in federal court for the power to indefinitely detain americans for anything they want to put them in jail for so it's not really a yes time right now just to clarify that the obama to put this emergency stay immediately after it was appealed to katherine for actually put the injunction on she put the injunction on a thursday they said and the idea they were going to be dealing appealed it a monday morning. like why would they be so aggressively trying to hold this provided as it were already using it but we have to end there unfortunately so much to talk about.

oh oh. so another study was just conducted about the effects of genetically modified foods it was done by a french research team which for the last seven years has been reevaluating biotech funded government studies about g.m. corn last week the group published their findings in a peer reviewed journal called food and chemical toxicology the study was groundbreaking because it was the first time this specific g.m. maize was tested over two years almost an entire rat's lifespan instead of just the ninety day trial required by regulators what they found is disturbing to say the least rats developed high levels of cancer and normally giant tumors all over their bodies so this is all further confirms what many other countries already seem to know the safety of g.m.o. crops is questionable by no means should be sold as perfectly safe for human consumption without further testing or to the center for food safety there are already ninety countries that aggressively monitor and restrict or ban g.m.

imports so why does there's such a lack of g.m.o. regulation in this country well the biotech giant month and so the largest producer of g.m. seed in the world has a very in sexual relationship with the u.s. government the roots of which stem back for decades bush senior's administration was responsible for deeming g.m.o. crops as substantially equivalent to non-human crops opening the floodgates for the industry take over the food supply with little room for opposition. but if anyone knows about them santo's toxic past is a chemical company they know that the food giants also responsible for such historical gems as d.d.t. p c b's an agent orange on santa didn't start genetically modifying plants cells and producing seeds until the mid one nine hundred eighty s. and it was a home made possible by someone you may know today mr mitt romney yep the republican presidential hopeful was intimately involved in monsanto's transition

into biotechnology when romney was fresh out of harvard he joined a consulting firm bain and company a month and to his brain the largest client quickly romney and john w. handily in one fantasy zero at the time became very tight they were so close in fact that hanley treated romney like a son giving him a million dollars a jump start to cite companies bain and company and bain capital and at the time when santo was mired in scandal so romney and bain were focusing on how to shift monsanto's business practices away from those that were gaining so much negative publicity by nine hundred eighty one as they was intimately guiding the company's direction biotech was firmly established as monsanto strategic research focus. conflict of interest much yet little piece of history that isn't boasted about much on the campaign trail so where is romney now and surprisingly he still surrounded himself with his good old friends at monsanto during the presidential primaries

romney named an eleven member agricultural advisory committee that was full of months anto connections but all of this attention on romney wouldn't be fair without going over obama's love affair with the scandalous ag giant as well when he was on the campaign trail obama said that he would listen to consumer needs and the label g.m. owes it turns out that he might be one of the most friendly jammo friendly presidents to ever grace the oval office under his administration obama's open the door for the. following g.m. crops on santa g.m.o. alfalfa monsanto g.m.o. sugar beets on santa's g.m.o. bt soybean syngenta g.m.o. corn for ethanol pioneered g.m.o. soybeans syngenta g m o b t cotton bayer g.m.o. cotton and g.m.o. papaya strain so how did this happen well one only has to look at who obama has appointed to the very regulatory bodies that are supposed to be responsible for our

food safety roger beachy director of the u.s.d.a. is a former director of the month santo danforth center michael taylor the act is food safety is our is the former vice president monsanto ramona romero a u.s.d.a. counsel was previously on dupont's corporate council and the secretary of agriculture tom vilsack was awarded governor of the year by the biotechnology industry organization whose members include monsanto and lastly islams the dickey the u.s. agriculture trade representative who pushes g.m. exports and other countries is a former month's sandow lobbyist now you might be wondering why the revolving door between monsanto and the u.s. government is more visible that's because the white house has refused to answer for your request demanding the disclosure of the relationship with the company once again one sanjo is completely ruthless and expense of our agriculture and even

worse our health we can't wait around for the government to listen to us so this is a call to action stannis corporations stop eating their food and let's make sure that they don't meet their bottom line.

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